How bad is your teenagers room?

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My 17 yr old at work so i ventured in the room, collected some mugs and glasses and a bowl and then spent ages in shock, it was a worse tip than id thought,.,.ok clothes all over the floor as usual but mouldy drinks bottles, the carpet so disgusting, stuff all in her bed ! I cleared the piles and hoovered, then put the piles of clothes back (she goes mad if I put them away). I threw all the food packets out and crap and opened the window.

My elder child was messy at this age but this is extreme,

Anyone else? She says she likes it like that and knows where everything is......................

Have to say, dd16's room is pristine, which I never expected. Mine was dreadful at that age, my mum refused to go into it and kept the door closed. I think dd's room is so tidy because she does that instead of GCSE revision.

Two/four fine - couple of glasses and clothes but generally fine. One rancid, like a hoarder’s home and one a massive jumble sale but occasionally tidy and not a health hazard.

Ds's is dreadful. I gave up nagging, when it bothers me too much I blitz it otherwise I shut the door. He's not even a teenager anymore !!!

My 14 year old's bedroom is a tip. I do it for him once a week and then a couple of days later it's back to square one. He has dirty clothes, crumbs, food and wires everywhere from his many devices. I hate setting foot in there to put clothes away because I know that's me in there for at least an hour.

Dc14 likes their room clean and tidy

dc16 has clothes all over the floor - half worn, dirty. Not clean ones - they know I get very cross if they do that with freshly washed and ironed clothes. Lots of cups, plates and glasses but they have an enforced clean out every 2 or 3 days. It does drive me mad so I try to go in there as little as possible!

I insist that plates and cups are put in the dishwasher and recycling in the in the bin every evening. They have a bin for other rubbish which they use so there’s no build up of that stuff or things going mouldy. They wipe surfaces/vac/change their bedding once a week, so it’s not dirty. I clean their bathrooms for them as I get more free time than they do.

But yes, clothes and trainers in the middle of the floor, school books not put away, etc so can be untidy. I’m fine with untidy, it’s their room, but dirty, i couldn’t cope with.

Ds(18) can get dusty, and he leaves clean piles of clothes on the chair he has in there, but never on the floor. His bedding can go weeks without being changed, but I leave it to him. Not particularly cluttered, he doesnt eat in room and brings glasses down as he has a couple of big pint glasses he prefers to use. It was drilled into him to use the bin and laundry basket in his room when he was younger so it is now a habit.

i cant walk across the room sometimes in my teens room as its covered .... cant tell if clothes are clean or dirty,...
I do the bedding as I cannot bare unchanged beds!!

Enforced tidy every week for DS14. He doesn't tend to have glasses and crockery upstairs as we have a no food in bedrooms policy and he brings glasses and cups downstairs. He changes his own bed every fortnight and I often tell him to open his window or I do it.

My 18yo's was an absolute pigsty until very recently I decided I just couldn't live with it anymore. We'd had awful arguments over it for years and I had to accept there was no changing him. I sorted it out while he was away and pop in every day or 2 to remove dishes/rubbish/dirty clothes if he hasn't done it himself - just takes a couple of minutes to stay on top of it. He's actually better at looking after himself now because it's not an overwhelming job and he can appreciate how much more calming and pleasant it is when everything's away.

It's far less chaotic for all of us because he's not yelling at everyone/'borrowing' his brother's stuff when he can't find anything. And not losing his keys under a pile of crap every week.

The 16yo has inherited my neat freakishness and his room is lovely.

Not as tidy as mine. Bed often unmade, a jumper on the floor, sometimes sweet wrappers. Likes all his school books (gcse) in a pile on top of a bookcase when there is shelf space. Things I wouldn't do. Never dirty, vacuumed weekly, all dirty washing in washbag, worn clothes folded on top of chest of drawers, plate or cup brought down when he leaves the room or if he hears me washing up.

DS' is now pretty good but then he does have a girlfriend abs they spend time in there together so I think he wants to impress her.

I don't tidy my DCs rooms, it's up to them. I do all the washing but if it's not in the laundry bin it doesn't get washed. I don't pick clothes off the floor.

I find if they have friends round they clean their rooms so generally they are quite tidy although DD is worse than DS mainly as she had more clothes.

They don't eat in their rooms and no shoes up stairs.

We have a rule that no food is allowed to be taken upstairs. Apart from that I just ignore it (dd is 18 and when she’s home from university her room literally looks like one of those rooms from a Tv programme where someone has died and no one has entered there for 374744 years).

Ha ha ! I have three teenagers and they are disgusting creatures!!

Well we just had a mouse in dds room and then found half a biscuit under her bed. So hopefully this has given her a bit of a shock but time will tell 🙄

One of them looks like it’s been burgled. It’s a big room but there’s barely anywhere to put your feet.
The other one looks like Marie Kondo lives in it. I go in DD16s room for tidying inspiration.

Both pretty good!

My 14 year olds room is not too bad but that's because I go in every day and straighten it out and collect the dirty laundry off the floor. Putting dirty laundry into the basket is an incredibly arduous task for him. When I have told him to do it he seems to take clean folded clothing out the drawer and put it in the laundry basket meanwhile he stuffs the dirty clothes back into the drawer. Sends me insane!

14 year old keeps his room spotless and tidy. I hoover if i am hoovering as it would be petty not to do his room too. He hoovers as well though.

Other boy is complete opposite

There's normally dirty clothes on DS's (17yo) bedroom floor apart from when i've just told him to sort his laundry out. Other than that it's fairly tidy.

DD (when she's home from university) is obsessively tidy and leaves lists of things for ME to sort out!

M daughter tends to leave her clothes around but then does a blitz. I'd say it's messy rather than dirty.
My son can live in a pig sty. He had a very particular girlfriend for a while so he kept it well, and when he does clean he's very fussy (you should see his method for doing the dishes), but left on his own and it can degenerate rapidly.

I didn't see the floor for about two years when DS2 was at home. Truly disgusting, including plates and mugs hidden under clean and dirty clothes, mould, etc. I stopped going in there at all, as mucking it out made no difference after about a week. When he left home he hired a skip instead of a van!
DS1 had a normal amount of teen filth until girls came along, when he cleaned up his act.

DS's room is generally tidyish. But even he commented on the state of it last night! It's BAD. He'll muck it out later, I expect. He's generally pretty good. He did have a strop this morning because I haven't washed his work overalls 🙄. I pointed out they are his overalls and I couldn't have found them amongst the mess if I wanted to. He's gone off to work with a face on 😂.

DD's was terrible at 17, you waded through debris to reach the window. Got worse before it got better - at 23 it's presentable